The Four-Year Program in Psychoanalysis

PPSC offers high-quality psychoanalytic training that provides candidates with broad exposure to the history of psychoanalytic thought, while at same time providing a treatment and supervision experience that promotes the highest degree of personal maturity on the part of the graduate analyst.

Like our Three-Year Program, the Four-Year Programconsists of courses in contemporary Freudian, modern analytic, object relations, relational and self psychological schools of thought. But in the fourth year of the program, advanced integrative seminars and advanced special electives further deepen the candidates’ learning. We believe that psychoanalysis continues to be a rich and thorough technique to relieve and improve mental health symptoms, and to promote the attainment of self-knowledge for a vital and productive life. Classes can be taken on either a full-time or part-time basis.

Certificate Requirements*^

Because of the ambitious nature of psychoanalysis, the requirements for graduation are rigorous.